Chapelle-Uree / La Chapelle-Urée
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03269CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Pre-Conquest
Cognate Fonts: Le Petit-Celland?
Church / Chapel Name: Formerly at the Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de La Chapelle-Urée [now disappeared]
Font Location in Church: Disappeared
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Le Bourg, 50370 La Chapelle-Urée, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the D5-D999 crossroads, about 16 km E of Avranches.
Additional Comments: recycled font?: disappeared by 1941
Font Notes:
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Now disappeared, this font was described by Le Héricher as a round basin on three feet, resembling "un monument druidique", primitive and ancient looking (Vivier, 1941)
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 636207 5392088
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.666981, -1.150053
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 40′ 1.13″ N, 1° 9′ 0.19″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 38